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So s l o w l y that Amy and Mum and Dad had plenty of time to chat with the neighbours,
pat a cat,
throw a stick for a friendly dog,
admire the moon, and try to find the red star.

This is a gorgeous book full of illustrations of the cutest sloth you’ve ever seen. There are plenty of fantastic little background touches that paint the scene, like the destruction left in the wake of the family when they walked fast, drove fast, shopped fast, and ate fast. There’s even a stack of books about thinking and being faster, and an increasingly speedy stack of fast meal books (20 minute meals at the bottom of the stack, instant meals at the top, obviously recently used) early on, and some very different books towards the end (1001 Types of Moss, Art of Patience, Slow Cooking).

This book is gorgeous and spot on in every way and helps remind us in the age we live in, with technology helping us pack more and more into the same amount of time, that there are more important things and people we should be focusing on, and that there is joy to be had in doing something purely because it makes you happy.

Highly recommended and fantastic to read aloud, I already have a few Margaret Wild books, but will definitely be keeping an eye out for any illustrated by Vivienne To.